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Associate professor position available on Embedded Artificial Intelligence ? Deadline for application is 3th March 2020
When will the next NeuroSTIC days will be held ? (a workshop event organized with GDR BioComp, ISIS, SoC and Robotics)
Internship subject in bio-inspired embedded systems (master degree starting in march-april). The subjects are here.
PhD positions are available in neuro-inspired hardware architectures but not necessarily published. Send me a CV. PhD position.
Postdoc positions in brain-inspired computing are available but not necessarily published. Send me a CV. Postdoc position.
March 2020: SOMA Project between France and Switzerland, funded by French and Swiss National Agencies. Neural-base Self-Organizing Architecture (PI: B. Miramond - LEAT). More details on SOMA Web Page
January 2020: Start of PhD CSC program for the Polytech Network Apply for a PhD in France !

Research on Embodied Computing and Neuromorphic architectures

I am working on smart hardware structures for more adaptive computing in the context of multimodal integration on autonomous systems, IoT and mobile robotics. That approach is called Embodied Computing and our systems are currently prototyped onto digital electronics and FPGA devices. The proposed neuromorphic architectures uses the following properties:

Neuro-computing: Neural maps for self-organization into massively parallel architectures.

ANR PRCI SOMA Project from 2018 to 2021

NeuComp Project from IDEX UCA Jedi: 2017-2018

Embodied computing: the dynamic organization of the system is directly dependent of the richness of the environment captured by the system's sensors.

ANR PRCI SOMA Project from 2018 to 2021

ARTEFACT Project funded by EUR DS4H from 2018 to 2021

Real-time computing: We are developing hardware and real-time dataflow IPs for embedded systems.

CIAR Project funded by IRT St Exupery from 2018 to 2021

Reconfiguration of the hardware structure: Reconfiguration is considered as part of the computing process.

ANR PRCI SOMA Project from 2018 to 2021

Short Bio

2019-present Head of eBRAIN research group embedded and Bio-InspiRed Artificial Intelligence and Neural networks
2015-present Full Professor
research in LEAT Lab - Université Côte d'Azur / UMR 7248 CNRS
teaching digital electronics in Polytech Nice Sophia Antipolis
2005-2015 Maitre-de-Conferences (associate professor)
Computer Sciences Department (UCP), research in ETIS, ENSEA - University of Cergy-Pontoise.
2004-2005 postdoctoral research fellow at INRIA Rocquencourt, AOSTE Team (Y. Sorel)
2003-2004 Assistant professor fellow at UEVE.
2000-2003 PhD degree in Computer Sciences, University of Evry Val d'Essonne (UEVE).

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Research in the LEAT Lab in Electronics, Antennas and Telecommunications , Université Côte d'Azur, CNRS UMR 7248
Member of the board of the Academy of Excellence on Networks, Information and Digital society of IDEX UCA Jedi
Member of the Scientific Commitee of the interdisciplinary axis C@UCA on Neurosciences (University Cote d'Azur).
Member of the Scientific Commitee of the Research Program on Neurosciences of IDEX UCA Jedi.
Member of the board of the Doctoral School STIC of Université Nice Sophia Antipolis
Member of the Platforme Conception CimPaca in micro-electronics

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Member of the working group on Neuromorphic Architectures of the OMNT
Member of the board of the GDR BioComp. Which News about the GDR BioComp ?
Member of the GDR ISIS. Scientific leader of the research topic on Bio-Inspired Architectures
Member of the GDR SoC/SiP
Chairman of the "Journées Neuro-STIC" jointly organized with GDR BioComp, ISIS, Robotique and SoC/SiP. When will the next NeuroSTIC days will be held ?
Member of the IEEE.

Current PhD Students

Loic Cordone, January 2020, Collaboration with Renault Software Labs
Efficiency of bio-inspired computing for embedded AI. From event-based sensors to spiking neural processing in automotive applications
Pierre-Emmanuel Novac, November 2019, Collaboration with Ellcie-Healthy
MicroIA, embedded Artificial Intelligence for connected objects
Edgar Lemaire, November 2019, Collaboration with Thales
Bio-inspired neural network architecture for high performance embedded computing
Marino Rasamuel, October 2019, EUR DS4H
Model and design of hybrid neural architectures through synchronous approaches
Nassim Abderrahmane, November 2018, Region PACA
Hardware design of spiking neural networks for energy-efficient brain inspired computing
Lyes Khacef, October 2018, ED STIC / UCA
Exploration of brain-inspired computing with self-organizing neuromorphic architectures
Adrien Russo, October 2018, ED STIC / UCA
Distribution of neural networks in wireless sensor networks for IoT

Former PhD Students

HO Dinh Khanh, October 2017, Collaboration with CEA LIST
Adaptive management of embedded architectures of autonomous systems
Wenhao Wang, April 2014 - July 2017, Collaboration with Valeo
Determination of optimal software architectures on multicore processors in automotive applications
Laurent Fiack, November 2012 - December 2016, Communauté d'Agglomération de Cergy Pontoise
The effect of the environment on the organization of self-organized hardware architectures
Laurent Rodriguez, Février 2011 - December 2015, ANR JCJC SATURN (2011-2014)
Definition of a hardware computational substrate for adaptive computing in mobile robotics
Amel Khiar, Février 2010 - 2014, ANR ARFU FOSFOR (2008-2011)
Virtualisation of communications in dynamically reconfigurable platforms
Thomas Lefebvre, 2009 - 2012
Hardware architecture of a smart camera for mobile robotics
Emmanuel Huck, 2008 - 2011, Thales and ANR OveRSoC
SystemC Simulation of distributed RTOS for Reconfigurable System-on-Chip

Main Collaborations

Ioana Vatajelu and Lorena Anghel(TIMA, Grenoble)
Olivier Bichler and Vincent Lorrain (CEA LIST, Saclay, France)
Karim Ben Chehida (CEA LIST, Saclay, France)
Bernard Girau (LORIA, Nancy, France)
Martial Mermillod (LPNC, Grenoble)
Alexandre Muzy (I3S, Nice, France)
Frédéric Precioso (I3S, Nice, France)
Nicolas Rougier (INRIA, Bordeaux, France)
Timothée Masquelier (Cerco, Toulouse)
Bernard Conein (MSHS, Nice)
Manuel Boutet (GREDEG, Nice)

Andres Upegui (InIT, Genève, Suisse)
Fabien Vannel (InIT, Genève, Suisse)
Timothée Lévi (University of Tokyo, Japan)